On March 16, Nigerian legislators refused to pass for
second reading, the bill on gender equality.
The bill, titled ‘Gender Parity and Prohibition of Violence
against Women’, would have, among other things,
provided women quality in marriage, education and
opportunities. This was not to be.
Some of the legislators cited religious and cultural
reasons. Some said the constitution already provides
for the rights of all persons in Nigeria and, therefore,
eliminates the need for a codified instrument to protect
the rights of women.
BUT HERE ARE FIVE WAYS NIGERIA, IRONICALLY,
LEGITIMISES DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN AND
THE GIRL CHILD.
CITIZENSHIP
Did you know that section 26 (2) (a) of the 1999
Nigerian constitution denies a woman the right to
confer citizenship statues on her foreign husband but
grants such rights to a foreign woman married to a
Nigerian male?
ASSAULT
The criminal code doles out harsher punishment –
felony – for assault against a man. Be you a woman, it
is misdemeanour. Read here what section 353 of the
criminal code says: “Any person who unlawfully and
indecently assaults any male person is guilty of a
felony, and is liable to imprisonment for three years.
The offender cannot be arrested without warrant.” And
read here what 360 says: “Any person who unlawfully
and indecently assaults a woman or girl is guilty of a
misdemeanor, and is liable to imprisonment for two
years.”
MARRIAGE
Under Nigeria’s penal code guiding the northern parts
of the country, “Nothing is an offence, which does not
amount to the infliction of grievous harm upon any
person and which is done by a husband for the purpose
of correcting his wife. Such husband and wife being
subject to any natural law or custom in which such
correction is recognized as lawful.”
WORK
Section 55 of the labour act bans women from working
in the night. “No woman shall be employed on night
work in a public or private industrial undertaking or in
any branch thereof, or in any agricultural undertaking or
any branch thereof.”
POLICE
This must take the biggest piece – the police
regulation.
Section 121 to 126 regulates the affairs of women in
the way it does not regulate males.
Women police officers shall, as a general rule, be
employed for duties that are concerned with women
and children only. Married women cannot enlist in the
police. Where an enlisted single woman wants to get
married, she must have spent two years in the police
and then apply for permission to marry.
She must furnish the police with particulars of fiancé
who must be investigated and cleared before
permission is granted. A married woman police officer
“shall not be granted any special privileges by reason of
the fact that she is married and shall be subjected to
posting and transfer as it were unmarried.”
Also, an unmarried woman police officer who is
pregnant shall be discharged from the force.

https://www.thecable.ng/married-women-cant-join-the-police-5-ways-the-constitution-discriminates-against-women

Blame Religion

I don't understand this discrimination against women... . It's men that are discriminated against

They have ministry of women affairs... Do we have ministry of men affairs??

mrvitalis:
I don't understand this discrimination against women... . It's men that are discriminated against

They have ministry of women affairs... Do we have ministry of men affairs??

Yeah no ministry of men affairs moreover that ministry is dormant.

Good points. So all these Feminists actually misfired. Instead of pushing 4 an amendment of relevant sections, they want 2 create anoda law which will in turn create a lacuna and contradict the provisions of the constitution.
Our Constitution needs total overhauling. It doesn't support National Development.